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>From: zeleny@widder.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Searle's response to silicon brain?
Message-ID: <1991Dec18.130655.6745@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 91 18:06:54 GMT
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In article <40832@dime.cs.umass.edu> 
orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

>In article <40825@dime.cs.umass.edu> 
>yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:

>>In article <40822@dime.cs.umass.edu> 
>>orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

JO'R:
>>>Can anyone tell me if Searle has reacted to the counter-
>>>Gedanken experiment of replacing each neuron in a brain
>>>with a silicon, digital, neuron simulator?  [...]

VY:
>>What is it with the hatred of science expressed by so many of you AI types?
>>There is no evidence to suggest that silicon digital neuron simulators can
>>mimic real neurons ... [...]

JO'R:
>First, I was asking if Searle had responded to this idea.  It seems
>an unjustified leap from this question to "hatred of science."
>Second, I am suggesting a *thought* experiment, so the lack of
>evidence claimed is only relevant if a digital neuron simulator
>is impossible *in principle*.

Since your thought experiment is designed to argue for an empirical
possibility, the burden of arguing for logical possibility falls on you. 

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